Syria ready to unleash missiles on Israel
Uzi Mahnaimi, Sunday Times [UK] Tel Aviv Published: 19 May 2013
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/world_news/Middle_East/article1261403.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2013_05_18

SYRIA has put its most advanced missiles on standby with orders to hit Tel
Aviv if Israel launches another raid on its territory.

Reconnaissance satellites have been monitoring preparations by the Syrian
army to deploy surface-to-surface Tishreen missiles.

An Israeli official told The New York Times that Israel, which has launched
three recent attacks on Syria, was considering further strikes and warned
President Bashar al-Assad that his government would face “crippling
consequences” if he hit back at Israel.

The deployment of the Syrian-made Tishreen missiles, each of which can carry
a half-ton payload, marks a significant escalation of tension in a region in
which the United States and Russia appear to be preparing for a Cold
War-style stand-off.

In a signal of its continued support for Assad, Russia last week sent a
dozen warships to patrol the Eastern Mediterranean close to its Syrian naval
base in Tartur, its only ...
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